Meet the Open Ecosystem Team
We are a passionate group of open source developers, advocates, and domain experts dedicated to supporting open projects, building vibrant communities, and strengthening the ecosystem for the future.
Arun Gupta
Vice President and General Manager, Open.Intel
Dedicated to growing the open ecosystem at Intel, Arun is a strategist, advocate, and practitioner who has spent two decades helping companies such as Apple* and Amazon* embrace open source principles. He is currently chairperson of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation Governing Board.
Debbie Graham
Open Source Software Process Champion
A technical content expert, Debbie is currently managing the publication of a new set of open source software playbooks. At the same time, she is developing a communication channel dedicated to raising awareness and inspiring the adoption of the open ecosystem across Intel.
Bob Monkman
Director, Networking Open Source Strategist
Bob is focused on open software adoption, developer and customer engagement, and strategy in the cloud computing ecosystem. Bob coordinates with internal teams, as well as cloud customers and partners to facilitate information sharing and customer-obsessed prioritization and execution.
Jim St. Leger
Staff Architect
Jim is an expert in creating, launching, and growing open source software communities. He is also an avid motorcyclist and skier, a curious lifelong learner, and a disability inclusion advocate whose career has spanned the automotive, aerospace, and semiconductor industries.
Sujata Tibrewala
Senior Manager, Open Source Alliance
Sujata leads a forum of Intel leaders brought together to ensure the company has a consistent and positive presence in open source communities. In addition to driving alignment on purpose and strategy, she also helps build consensus for new open source projects and initiatives.
Deirdré Straughan
Director of Open Source Community and Evangelism
A 40-year industry veteran with deep technical expertise, Deirdré leads the team responsible for maximizing Intel’s impact in the open source ecosystem. Her work touches all the elements essential to open source culture, including web, community, events, technical marketing, and demos.
Shirley Bailes
Director, Open Source Events and Engagement
Shirley is an all-around open source advocate with a background in program management, event marketing, consulting, and DEI initiatives. She likes spreadsheets, budgets, and checklists. In her spare time, she enjoys long walks on the beach, ceramics, and cooking.
Joe Brockmeier
Director of Open Source Community Architecture
Joe started with open source in 1996. Today, he's the Apache Software Foundation's vice president of M&P and represents Intel in the TODO Group. He's been a contributor to many projects and has written for LWN, Linux* Magazine, ZDNet, and others.
Sonia Goldsby
Open Source Event Specialist
Sonia brings over a decade of experience in event planning and open source program and project management to Intel. Her focus at Intel is leading marketing initiatives and driving cross-functional open source events. Sonia enjoys spending time with family and traveling.
Ezequiel Lanza
Open Source Evangelist
Passionate about helping people discover the exciting world of artificial intelligence, Ezequiel is a frequent AI conference presenter and the creator of use cases, tutorials, and guides that help developers adopt open source AI tools like TensorFlow* and Hugging Face*.
Nicole Martinelli
Editorial Director, Open.Intel
Nicole is a journalist, active contributor to OpenStreetMap* and founder of Resiliency Maps, an open source toolkit that helps people navigate disasters and emergencies. Before joining Intel, she was the editor of Superuser, the OpenStack Foundation’s online publication. "Californitaliana."
Jessica Marz
Director of Open Source Program Office
An expert at explaining legal concepts to software developers and software development concepts to lawyers, Jessica is responsible for defining and managing Intel’s open source approval policies and practices. She’s also an avid arts-and-crafter known for her creative reuse of materials.
Tracey Erway
Information Architect & Storyteller
Recognizable for launching the Yocto Project* and as the YP advocacy lead for years, Tracey was also a founding member of the MinnowBoard* project bringing Intel® hardware to the open source arena. She's been working with the open source community enabling software since Linus was a one-man band.
Jeremiah Foster
Open Source Technologist
Jeremiah is a carbon-based life form with a predilection for binary data. His interests include GNU and Linux as well as developing free software for the internet. He has been known to write technical documentation and lecture on Debian* and Perl*.
Chetan Prabhu
Infrastructure and DevOps Engineer
A true developer hero, Chetan helps the Open Source Program Office work smarter, faster by automating licensing and compliance processes. He previously worked at Amazon as an open source software compliance engineer and KPMG* as an open source software auditing consultant.
Alexios Zavras
Senior Open Source Compliance Engineer
An open source and free software licensing expert, Alexios is an active participant in the TODO Group, Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX)*, and OpenChain*. He frequently speaks at industry and academic conferences, including the Open Source Leadership Summit, FOSDEM, and CopyleftConf.